Friday, June 22, 2012

Paso Robles Wine Travel Planner

A new web-based tool simplifies traveling through Paso Robles wine country. The Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance has launched their new Trip Planner - on their website - which lets wine enthusiasts create customized itineraries. The Trip Planner allows you to search over 160 Wine Alliance member wineries and map out a wine tasting experience based on amenities, varieties, and the region’s wineries. The tool also incorporates the area’s hospitality assets - restaurants, accommodations, and tour companies.

Jennifer Porter is the Executive Director of Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance. She says, “There is no other wine region or entity that provides such a complete planning tool with the same customization and sharing capabilities that the Paso Robles Trip Planner offers.”

You can search for amenities such as certifiable sustainable, tours, pet friendliness or picnic areas, and cross reference capabilities allow you to refine your search according to the type of wine you like. Adding locations to an itinerary can be done from any page on the website that lists wineries or hospitality businesses, with a single click of the mouse. Once an itinerary is built, you can fine-tune by click-and-drag and add specific addresses for beginning and ending points. Once the itinerary is complete, share it through social media, print it, email it or bookmark it.

To utilize the new Paso Robles Trip Planner, visit the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance website and click on the Plan Your Visit – My Itinerary button which sits to the right of the screen. This will send you to a landing page which provides simple directions to begin creating an itinerary in three clicks.

This Trip Planner was made possible through support from the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. The Alliance contracted with Clever Concepts, Kraftwerk Design, Mike Bobbitt and Associates, and Moosepoint Technologies to create the design and functionality of the Trip Planner.